His only mistake was that they had been too painstaking in the way they removed the orchids.
I don't think you need be too painstaking; a rough finish will look more appropriate here.
Creating such a detailed crowd scene in "The Ant Bully," a computer-animated film that opens today, once would have been too painstaking and costly.
And, although the pharmacological significance of chirality was evident in the 1930s, separating the mixtures was until recently too painstaking to be practical.
Scientists have in the last few years accomplished feats of the incredibly small, constructing devices not much larger than individual molecules, but they also realize that their current painstaking techniques are too slow and inefficient.
Charlotte, too, was painstaking in her concern for their welfare and education, but less relaxed, as though being Queen blocked spontaneous affection.
Past efforts had involved a long, painstaking process that yielded grains of powder that were too small.
Instead of the leisurely set piece, the painstaking vignette wrought just for a friend, we typically get: "It is too involved a tale for telling here"; "There is no point in telling you what has happened..
The process was painstaking.
The privatization of the mines was painstaking.
